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>> And you don't even have to do anything to take advantage other than upgrade to go 1.6

I know, right! That's what's sick. Even upgrading to the latest version of go is easy: "To remove an existing Go installation from your system delete the go directory. This is usually /usr/local/go." Then install the latest...

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Probably commenting too late but I find it a lot simpler to just compile from source. After you're initially setup (you need a go1.4 installation in your homedir), you just pull the latest repo updates, checkout the release tag and run all.bash or all.bat each time. This also gives you cross-compilation and ability to contribute bug fixes.

gvm is also worthwhile, particularly on ubuntu, and particularly if you want to test out the RC without fully committing to it. https://github.com/moovweb/gvm

if you want 20,000 lines of shell script to manage one of the simplest to install languages out there, sure. :/

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